Holy shit, Jerry SCORCHES this Me & My Uncle. Sometimes a pedestrian song - not here. They did my birthplace right in their only Wichita show! Oh, and the entire rest of the show smokes too.

A very solid show, Keith plays brilliantly. It sounds just a bit fast, not Munchkin by any means, but a little bit too fast. We saw the American University show around this time; a great era for the Grateful Dead. THANKS!

Great mix, sound. Sounds better than the Dave's Picks, and it won't cost you a jacked-up and gouger's price. Keep the music free and beautiful, people!! GR8TFL!

Mike Lai's version sounds much better, but is a few cents sharp in my opinion. Just enough to bug me. Break out the pitch corrector.
Thanks Archive

Rockin' 72' gr8 show.nice playing.Phil sounds awesome.

I just pre-ordered this as Dave's Picks Vol. 11. Very tight show that's consistently great throughout. One of the Best Bird Song's ever (right up there with Veneta 8-27-72). Phil is actually able to sing Box of Rain much like the American Beauty studio version! Can't think of a better He's Gone with an outstanding jam. Love the Truckin-Other One. Up tempo Around & Around which I like better than the slower versions that came later. Excellent soundboard recording...very crisp! The Dead nail it on this show...5 Stars!

This is a great show straight through. While Bob's songs shine, Jerry is on it.
BTW is as good as any, same for A+A and Sugar Mag.
The Other One is deep.

Set 1
The Promised Land starts us off in fine, rock n roll fashion.
Sugaree keeps a nice tempo and basically perfect technical execution by the boys.
Me And My Uncle is another great version. Jerry just going to town behind Bobby singing.
Tennessee Jed comes in a bit cut with sound quality issues, you can only hear the guitars kind of. Not sure what happened, then Jerry’s voice comes in. The SQ gets fixed, but the playing is pretty mellow. The finale is solid, per the standard.
Black Throated Wind is a pristine version. Not overly vocalized by Bobby (well, maybe a tad at the end), and Jerome really runs his fingers across the strings during the finale.
Bird Song is another solid effort. If this show maintains this level of performance it will become a “hidden gem” in my book. Beautiful tone on Garcia’s guitars as we soar above the golden wheat fields of Kansas.
Jack Straw. Speaking of Jack Straw from Wichita! Massive cut, in the Wichita, Kansas version. Heart breaking. Anyhow, when it does cut back in, it sounds great. Not a definitive version, but certainly enjoyable.
Box Of Rain is a nice follow up.
Don't Ease Me In
Beat It On Down The Line
Brown Eyed Women, after two well performed but not desired songs, this was a nice push back into greatness.
Big River maintains the energy.
China Cat Sunflower >I Know You Rider features a nice transition that goes into Rider fairly early and spends a good amount of time jamming out that theme rather than the tradition China portion. Nice energy and execution.
Around and Around is a full on rocker.
Casey Jones somehow lost a bit of steam, due to a Garcia choice I believe, where he chooses a few notes instead of many in a certain part. Listen and see if you agree.

Set 2
Cumberland Blues opens the set in style! Great playing by Garcia in particular. All the country folk pep you could ask for, with good singing as well.
El Paso continues par excellance
He's Gone has a good tempo to it, as we open the meat locker up. This version features on of the finest post Gone thematic jams I’ve heard in the song. Starting at about 10 minutes Garcia makes every second of the next 3 minutes count before it slows down to drop nicely into…
Truckin' -> comes out of a dead silence, but within a full measure, securing the “transition” consideration by a hair. The song picks up the pace nicely, and burns through my mind as Garcia once again distracts me from what I was doing as I multi-task. This then settles into a nice bluesy jam after the “explosion”. This jam then moves toward familiar territory.
The Other One -> the theme steps in and we have about 20 minutes of music coming for the apex of the meat sequence. After the first verse we head into somewhere between exploratory and spacey. Around 8 minutes in the energy has pushed us into the jam we are all familiar with in this era, that can be thrown in the middle of a Dark Star or TOO with ease. Around 12 minutes in Keith takes over for a nice, dark solo, and then Jerry scales up behind him about a minute later. Keith wasn’t ready to just turn it over and they have a nice moment. Billy, as always during these jams, can’t be stopped. It just gets darker from there, and the peak finally breaks through in style and we get a short return to theme for the second verse.
Brokedown Palace -> mellow us out just nicely.
Sugar Magnolia
Uncle John's Band has a lyrical flub, but it’s really irrelevant at this point.
Johnny B. Goode finishes us off in style, just as we started and maintained pretty much throughout the show.


The playing in the first set is virtually flawless, on a technical level. There was no PITB, which was unusual, but the energy within the set was there regardless.
The second set promises more of the same.
While this show may not have “bells and whistles” in the form of massive extended jams or a lot of thematic oddities, it is completely enjoyable.
Great SQ. The cut is Jack Straw is obviously ironic.

An evening to stretch the mind. High quality recording.

Nothing like these September through November 1972 shows. So many boards available and so much inventive and evolutionary playing occurring.

This Wichita show escaped my collection some how. Standout moments are obviously with the jams (Bird Song, He's Gone, Truckin>Other 1 segment) but the standards are all executed well.

Keith in particular is killing it during the jams. So great to hear him as a key melodic inventor of that nights music. Both guitars can be heard clearly and everybody is on.

Not as good as the next night of the tour or the Cleveland show from the end of October, but Mike Lai's excellent transfer brings this recording to full appreciation value. Thanks!

Heh Pangolin, you're not wrong - overall a great show. But ain't it ironic that the only ever Jack Straw from Wichita (or maybe there are more and I just ain't looked hard enough?) in Wichita is cut/flawed/f*cked!!!!!

Still a great show though (apols for repeating myself) and, perhaps, just perhaps, maybe there's another Wichita somewhere in the sky and the Jack Straw is played/recorded to perfection.

We can share the women, we can share the wine now we play for life.... that skip in Jack Straw really threw me off!

While maybe not as strong as the Europe run, this is still the Dead riding a peak.

Excellent Box and a superb Bird song in the first set. In the second set we're treated to a gorgeous Brokedown Palace and an very exploratory Other One featuring some great jazz piano work by Keith.

Great Other One on this show though it does appear to have a cut. The jam is classic Jazz-72-Dead-rock and rip. Mellow as it is up to that point it seems like the boys were setting us up for the mind trip that the Other One offered us. Great stuff. and into Brokedown. Can't loose.

Just perfect . Original enough to distinguish itself from every other one. Inspired (really), and energetic. Yet spacey and dreamy at times. Bluesy and rockin'.
Great sound. Good instrument separation. This show has a distinctive sound.

This was just exactly perfect.

I"m working my way through the archives, this one gave me pause.

nice little nug of 72'!

This is great, I think. And this source sounds WAY better, imo, than the other reviewed source. Much more crisp. These late '72 shows are so different from those early in the year, Europe or even the great August shows. Harbingers of truly great things to come in '73-74. Love it!